ELAPSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elapsed mean? 

• ELAPSED (adjective)
  The adjective ELAPSED has 1 sense:

1. (of time) having passed or slipped by

  Familiarity information: ELAPSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELAPSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of time) having passed or slipped by

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Context example:

elapsed time

Participle:

elapse (pass by)

 Context examples 

It was in January, ’85, that my poor father met his end, and two years and eight months have elapsed since then.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The amount of time elapsed during the administration of an agent.

(Duration of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

Mr. Rochester had given me but one week's leave of absence: yet a month elapsed before I quitted Gateshead.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Only a few seconds elapsed before he was on his feet again.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Several weeks elapsed before I saw the least change in her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I instantly wrote to Geneva; nearly two months have elapsed since the departure of my letter.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And nine years, Catherine knew, was a trifle of time, compared with what generally elapsed after the death of an injured wife, before her room was put to rights.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“How much time elapsed between your turning the corner and your discovery that the road was clear?”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An hour and half had elapsed before the Inspector returned alone.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The amount of time elapsed during the capture of data.

(Acquisition Duration, NCI Thesaurus)